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Wagon Spring;

No. 230,281. Patented .luly 20, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

WILLIAM G. HUGHES, OF OHUBUBUSOO, INDIANA.

WAGON-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,281, dated July 20,1880.

Application filed December 152, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. HUGHES, of Ohurubusco, in the county ofWhitley and State of Indiana, have invented a new and ImprovedWagon-Spring, of which the followin g is a specification.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the springs attached to a wagon.Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same on line to 00, Fig. 1. Fig.3 represents views of the yoke and eyebolts.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to construct a novel and efficientspring that shall also serve as a side bar or'stake to a wagon.

The invention consists of a spiral spring set on the end of awagon-bolster and held in a vertical position in a frame-work of archedrods, while resting centrally on the top of the spring is a slottedyoke, from the ends of which depend two eyebolts or clips and links,that pass down to or through cross-bars which extend laterally frombeneath the wagon-bed, and thereby support the wagon-body.

In the drawings, A represents the bolsters, B the wagon-bed, and O thecross-bars attached to the under side of the bed B, and held together inpairs by the plates (1.

On the bolster ends are set the plates D, on which rest the spiralsprings E, which are inclosed and held in a vertical position by the twoupright arched rods F, whose ends are fastened in or upon the bolsterends, asshown. Oneof these rods F is arched in a plane parallel with thesides G of the Wagon, and the other is arched over and at right anglesto the first. The yokes H, provided with a slot, a, are set over thefirst of these rods F in a posi- 0 tion parallel with the Wagon sidesGand under the arch of the other rod F, so as to rest upon the spiralsprings E, and on each hooked end of the said yokes H are suspended theeyebolts I or clips and links, that pass down to or through theprojecting ends of the crossbars 0. Nuts b, screwed on the ends of theseeyebolts I, will hold them in place, and thus the wagon-bed B will besuspended from the yokes H, which rest on the springs E. I

This device, extending upward at the sides of a wagon-body, serves alsoas an excellent substitute for the usual side bars or stakes that aredesigned to prevent excessive lateral motion of the wagon-bed; and afurther advantage of this device is, that all the space between the bedof a wagon and the bolster is free for the motion of the wagon-body.

' These springs E and their inclosing-rods F can be made ot'an y lengththat may be desired to allow greater or less vertical movement to thewagon-body; and the device is cheaper and more durable than the ordinaryelliptic springs in use for such purpose.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The spiral spring E, inclosed in a frame upon theend of the bolster A, in combination with the saidbolster, the yoke H,the eyebolts or clips and links I, and the wagon-body G, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The combination of the spiral spring E, the arched rods F, and theslotted yoke H with the holster A, the eyebolts or clips .and links I,and the wagon-body G, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM G. HUGHES.

Witnesses:

EDWARD A. MOSSMAN, It. N. PRATT.

